Mar 31, 2005 10:09
I have already read about Terri Schiavo in the National Right to Life magazine and was curious how it would go. i heard nothing for a year or so, and then Terri Schiavo became a public figure as well as her father. in the past few weeks, i commited that Terri should live.
During all the hubaloo while Terri was fighing for her life, My dad informed me a somber story that he was pushed into.
My dad, Bruce, he was comitted by law, under his mother's desires, to look over the medicines and care that would go to his mother. His mom told him that she wishes not to be kept alive by machine. Such as respirator, etc...She didnt want the suffering of her own to be her children's burden. She didnt want to suffer long, but suffer for a short time.
During when his mother was having a surgery, the doctor approached Bruce and asked him if he could use the respirator, to Bruce's mother. My dad said, "I will follow my mother's wishes. No." The doctor replied, "I Must have the respirator to help my patient." "No." "I will NOT allow my patient to die on my hands!" My dad recluntly allowed the doctor to use the respirator. Eventually she lived. She could have died in the Doctor's hands. The doctor did not want to ruin his reptuation. But, later, Bruce's mother died of age, not of sickness. My Grandmother Roaslie Hergert died in peace in 1992. May God be with her.
Now, i applied this with Terri Schiavo. she "apparently" told her husband that she wishes to live not by respirator, etc, like my grandmother wished.
I heard this from my mom that Terri did attempt to say "I want to live" she said in a coarse voice, "iii, waaaaannn" after that, she cried because she tried hard to say it. I still believe that terri is not in a vegated state and she has a right to actually recover and learn how to speak better than she could ever have.
May Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo rest in peace.
Amen. -_-